Monthly Archives: October 2016

This week we have been very busy with lots of Halloween activities including hand print ghosts and brush painting our bat and pumpkin masks. We have also been getting sticky gluing and sticking some spooky cob webs.

We are really looking forward to dressing up for Halloween on Monday next week and having a special tea party. The Ladybirds will also be creating colourful artwork ready for our Diwali celebrations and getting ready for Bonfire Night activities!

Butterflies

We have decorated our room with our Halloween crafts this week and have also started our Diwali board with handmade lanterns, candles and fireworks. We have also made some hands that we will decorate with henna.

Next week we can’t wait for our Halloween party and to dress up! We will also be creating a wonderfully spooky Halloween display.

Bumblebees

This week we have been making our Halloween handprint displays which look wonderful – the Bumblebees did a brilliant job! We also made some delicious chocolate witches hat using ice-cream cones – yum! We have also being doing some beautiful bonfire handprint pictures and making fantastic fireworks with pipe cleaners.

We are really excited about dressing up for Halloween and having a tea party next week as well as making Diwali candles for a lovely display.

Dragonflies

This week we have had so much fun conducting lots of science experiments! We also had a visit from Zoo Lab and all their wonderful animals which the Dragonflies loved! We had so much fun playing supermarket sweep where we collect as many different food items as we can in one minute!

Next week the letter is P and the number is 5. The shape is oval and the colour is blue. We are looking forward to creating some wonderful Diwali artwork and really excited about dressing up for our Halloween party on Monday!

We are half way through half term and missing our lovely term time families but hope you’re all having a wonderful time! We are busy as usual at nursery packing our days full of activities as usual for our year-round children and having lots of fun preparing for Halloween and learning about Diwali this week!

If you’re looking for things to do this half term why not check out the below links for some ideas. From pumpkin picking at Secretts to Spooky Halloween Week at Birdworld there is plenty to get the whole family involved. If you want to steer clear of Halloween, we like the look of the Teddy Bear’s picnic play Farnham Maltings too!

Nursery Practitioners Level 2 & 3

We are looking for qualified, friendly, motivated practitioners to work in our family owned nursery. We offer a competitive wage, a relaxed and friendly working environment. We pride ourselves on identifying and supporting training needs and helping you become the best that you can be.

The post will have five main aspects:

To effectively implement and develop the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)

To work with the parents, professionals and the wider community as appropriate.

To monitor children’s progress and interests by using the appropriate systems

To plan, observe and assess children by using the planning cycle

To work with the Room Leaders and Management to ensure the day to day organisation of the room runs smoothly and is of high quality

Job Type: Full-time

If you are interested in the position please either request an application form here or call us on 01483 425138.

Research has found that children who enjoy reading, do better at school in all subjects.

It is never too early to start reading with your little ones. A bedtime story is the perfect way to wind down before sleep, but whenever fits best into your daily or weekly routine will ensure consistent book time.

The Book Trust have some pointers on sharing books and reading with your child, from babies to older children. Take a look here.

This week we have been busy creating a new autumn Halloween display. The Ladybirds have been using lots of different textures to decorate their bats, pumpkins and leaves including paint, tissue paper and glue. We have spent plenty of time in the fresh air this week and particularly enjoyed playing in the sandpit and the wendy house.

Next week we are looking forward to lots of messy play with gloop, jelly and crazy soap! We will also being getting back out into the garden for plenty of play with the sandpit again.

Butterflies

We have enormous fun engaging in lots of different textured play this week. This included playing with animals in hay, boats in water and plenty of pom-pom and sand play too! We have been practicing our balancing using different climbing equipment and have also made some lovely Autumn trees to hang around the room as well as new tea cups and tea pots for our role play area!

Next week we will be beginning our Halloween display (very exciting!) creating lots of different decorations including pumpkins, ghosts and paper plate masks!

Bumblebees

We have got stuck into making our new Halloween display this week including using pumpkins stamps and making bats with paint dabbers. We have also loved making different Halloween faces using our hands – these are part of a brilliant display the children have made on our door, do make sure you take a peek!

We are really looking forward to continuing our Halloween preparations next week and will be making scrummy chocolate witches hats! We will also be starting our bonfire displays and having lots of messy creative fun while we get creative!

Dragonflies

We have LOVED our new role play ice-cream parlour this week! The children have really enjoyed being imaginative and have shared beautifully between themselves and have been taking turns very well. We have also started to look at Halloween and what we will be doing for our display and activities.

The children have decided that we will be making witches hats as well as ghosts, pumkins, bats and spiders for our Halloween display next week. The letter of the week will be T and the number 3. The colour will be yellow and the shape a hexagon.

We have a nursery wide focus on different cultural celebrations and will be looking forward to learning about and engaging in a couple of separate events this month…

Diwali falls on 30th October until 3rd November this year and each room is planning related activities. Our own Sujana will also be reading the children a story book all about Diwali.

Halloween (31st Oct) falls on a Monday this year so we will be holding a Happy Halloween Party where children can come dressed up (please don’t scare the staff too much!) and enjoy a tea party with freaky food (well usual party food) and ghoulish games….mwah ha ha ha!!

Ladybirds
This week we have been doing artwork for our new autumn displays and we have also been singing our hearts out and having fun using props to the songs! The little Ladybirds have also been getting mucky and messy with flour play and had loads of fun moving about on the soft play equipment.

Next week we will be completing our autumn displays and getting ready for all the wonderful upcoming festivals in October.

Butterflies

We have been getting creative in Butterflies room this week with lots of sticking, painting and dabbing cups, saucers, pans and teapots to decorate our role play area. We have also been enjoying practicing putting our coats on so we are all snug when we go outside to play now that the weather is getting colder. This week has also seen us involved in lots of singing and moving and shaking with our dance activities.
We are looking forward to practicing our cutting and developing our fine motor skills next week with lots of cutting, rolling and generally playing with playdough. We will also be having fun outside as much as possible as well as on the soft play equipment inside.

Bumblebees
This week Bumblebees have enjoyed a lot of messy play activities including fairy dough and crazy foam play! We have also added to our Autumn tree display by making acorns and conkers. We thoroughly enjoyed making lots of noise using pots and pans as musical instruments in the garden. We have also enjoyed plenty of colour, number and shape matching this week.
Next week we are looking forward to involving the Bumblebees in lots of role play being doctors and shop keepers as well as looking at different occupations. We are also planning plenty of garden time next week, having fun on the bikes and scooters and practicing our balancing and running too!

Dragonflies
Personal, social and emotional development has been a focus again this week and we have looked specifically at our relationships with friends. We have explored working together as a team and playing together nicely through physical activities including tug of war, egg and spoon races and of course three legged races! We helped each other and cheered others on encouraging our friends!
Next week the letter is A and the number is 2. The colour is green and the shape is square. We are very excited to be changing our role play area in to an ice cream parlour and encouraging the children to use their imaginations making ice creams with cones, shaving foam and glitter! We will also start to talk about Halloween and look at what we could create and make for decorations. We will discuss what we do for Halloween with the aim of helping further the children’s understanding of the world and why/ how we celebrate different events and festivals.

Nursery Practitioners Level 2 & 3

We are looking for qualified, friendly, motivated practitioners to work in our family owned nursery. We offer a competitive wage, a relaxed and friendly working environment. We pride ourselves on identifying and supporting training needs and helping you become the best that you can be.

The post will have five main aspects:

To effectively implement and develop the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)

To work with the parents, professionals and the wider community as appropriate.

To monitor children’s progress and interests by using the appropriate systems

To plan, observe and assess children by using the planning cycle

To work with the Room Leaders and Management to ensure the day to day organisation of the room runs smoothly and is of high quality

Job Type: Full-time

If you are interested in the position please either request an application form here or call us on 01483 425138.